[PD] [entry] changes

On Oct 27, 2007, at 11:59 AM, Roman Haefeli wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 12:02 +0200, Enrique Erne wrote:
>> On Oct 27, 2007, at 5:56 AM, Roman Haefeli wrote:
>>>>>>>>> in order to work with pd-ext i had to rename some object in chat
>>>> and
>>>> netpd-gui i.e. [l2s] to [zexy/list2symbol] or [netclient] to
>>>> [maxlib/netclient].
>>>> is renaming zexy , maxlib objects with namespace the correct/
>>>> only way
>>>> in pd-extended?
>>>>>>>>> hm, i didn't test myself, but since you are using pd-0.40
>>> (extended or
>>> not) zexy and maxlib and stuff should be loaded by [declare]. i
>>> think
>>> currently they are only loaded as externals, which means, for
>>> extended
>>> we would need to add them as pathes as well (with '-stdpath'
>>> instead of
>>> '-stdlib'). could you test, if that works? there is no way in
>>> renaming
>>> all the objets.
>>>> most of them could be replaced with list-abs :)
>>>> i tested if [list2symbol] could create and reloaded a test patch with
>>>> did not create:
>> import zexy
>> declare -path zexy
>> declare -stdlib zexy
>> declare -stdpath zexy
>> declare -path
>> /Applications/Pd-0.40.3-extended-20071026.app/Contents/Resources/
>> extra/
>> zexy
>> declare -stdpath
>> /Applications/Pd-0.40.3-extended-20071026.app/Contents/Resources/
>> extra/
>> zexy
>>>> did create:
>> import zexy/list2symbol
>> declare -stdlib zexy/list2symbol
>>>> on osx 10.3.9 (it's an old cat) with Pd-0.40.3-extended-20071026.app
>>>>>> but again. i want to know the official way to load an external in
>> pd-extended. who can answer this or where is it documented?
>>>> the readme says "By default, most of the included libraries are
>> loaded
>> at startup."
>>>> if import is the way to go what about all helpfiles, do they need to
>> get updated in order to work?
>> in case of netpd, it's not worth to think about [import] at all. netpd
> won't use it.
Any particular objection to [import]? It's an external like any
other. If you use list2symbol, etc. because it solves problems, I
don't see a reason to ignore [import].
.hc
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